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Simba

It's been over a month since I last posted. We lost my little boy a week ago today. You know those animals that just get under your skin, that steal your heart from the very start, and there's never any comparison to? That was my Simba. We bought him from Pets at Home, 2 years and 3 months ago when he was just a little scrap of a hamster at a month old. He spent the first few days in a tiny travel cage while my flatmate at the time got a cage off someone she worked with. We ignored the 24 hour rule and had him running around on the sofa with me sat on the floor. He curled up and went to sleep in my sleeve that night and I was instantly smitten. That flatmate took him home for a weekend, shortly after we got him. Her mother wouldn't let him into the house and so he was relegated to the shed. He came back with a bad cold, a small case of wet tail and fleas. A £30 vets bill and 10 days course of Batryill later and the little boy was on the mend. When my mother found out